Mageia

Reader supplied reviews for Mageia Average rating 8.5 from 132 review(s) Please specify which version of the distribtion you are reviewing. Please select a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. What are your thoughts on Mageia? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- cauldron987.165.14.1321 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 9 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-02-09 Country: France Votes: 37 Bonjour tout le monde, Je cherchais, comme beaucoup une alternative à Windows 10. Mon choix s'était porté surtout sur Mint, Zorin et Ubuntu. Mais impossible de les installer du fait d'un conflit matériel. J'ai alors découvert par hasard Mageia 9, lors d'une soirée avec l'ALDIL. L'installation s'est faite sans aucun problème (HP Pavilion). J'utilise KDE Plasma et très honnêtement je trouve le graphisme très, très sympa. La distribution étant française, il n'y a aucun problème de traduction: tout est en français sans exception. Aucun soucis depuis 2-3 mois que je l'utilise. De plus le forum est hyper réactif et accueillant. A cerise sur le gâteau il existe une antenne sur Lyon. A tester sans aucune modération. ;) Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 9 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-01-23 Votes: 38 I have been using Mageia since it was Mandrake, then Mandriva and finally Mageia. Each time, it has gotten better and with more software in their repositories. I am currently running Mageia 9 on a Lenovo laptop from 2017. it found all of the installed hardware, detected the WIFI card with Bluetooth and booted perfectly. The amazing part is how many file system choices are available during the install, from EXT4 to BTRFS to JFS and almost anything in-between. Its security updates are timely and stable, easily installed via urpmi, dnf, dnfdragora, flatpak or rpmdrake (your choice). It is not bleeding edge like a lot of Arch distros, but if that is what you want then Arch is there for that purpose. Nor is it stuck in the woods, like some of the Debian derivatives. it is a well balanced distro between security and stability. If you want hardware support out of the box and easy configuration (MCC) then Mageia is for you. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 9 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-01-19 Votes: 37 I have two OS:s on my different computers: Raspberry or Mageia. My current workhorse lap came with W11. Canged directly to bigger ssd, expanded to 64 GB ram, installed Mageia 9 and there is no issues at all. I use two extra monitors in three different locations. I write and I work with Scribus, Audacity and Kdenlive etcetera and make money with my setup. Mageia is the successor leading from the Mandrake era, when I got used to Linux, for all my needs. Last summer I tested quite a few distros on a similar machine as mine. Mageia gives me no issues. It just works, very well indeed. AppImages also works well. Just use Mageia for your daily OS. Tell your friends. I run Mageia 10 (Cooker) on a separate machine via ssh and home automation and that way I run newer version programs over my in house network, when and if I want to. A friend of mine got a new laptop and put it in a drawer. He could not use it. Warnings and popups everywhere. After a month he told me about the drama. After a cup of coffee and some reasoning I nuked the hard drive and installed Mageia 8, or was it 7. He asked the other day for Mageia 10. It makes me really happy to see him as the accustomed every day Linux-user he has become. He is also happy about calling himself a linux user. I think he is 75 today. Upgrades to M10 due in may I think. Looking forward to it. Mageia is a really really good. Thanks. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 132 reader reviews of Mageia...